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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Wed May 13, 2020, 10:00 AM May 2020

They are unfit for office and the pandemic has done much to highlight how 'special' our leaders are

The parallels between Trump and Johnson grow ever more apparent to the significant detriment of both our nations. The bluster and bollocks, their ‘policy’ positions, the exaggeration of achievements, the false hope and the utter lies they spouted to bullshit their way to the top may have seemed like an excellent plan, but the reality of holding such high office in the time of Covid is clearly kicking them in their collective incompetent arses.

We have always known that these ethically and morally bankrupt bamboozlers are wholly the opposite of the sort of character in both the disposition and capacity needed to lead anything or anybody, never mind a nation in a crisis. At this time, when we need leaders who can demonstrate attention to detail, understand that their actions have consequences other than what their poll numbers look like, and, can demonstrate an irreproachable ethical rectitude that can unite all of us, we get stuck with these horrors.

As a result of their habit of gaslighting, everything is falling over post haste, you cannot gaslight covid or their ineffectual and inept response to it. The stats do not lie (even though they desperately try to limit the count). They are so used to acting with corrupt impunity it seems they cannot help to continue to do so even as it leads to death tolls unimaginable even a few short months ago. This is all going to end badly for them, the question is how many of us are they going to take out in the process?

The saying goes you get the leaders you deserve. If that is the case, collectively, in a past life every single one of us must have been mass murderers or some such thing – because none of us deserve this, not even those who voted for them.

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